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Chapter 6
A New Start
That night, she was cold and hungry. She woke up the next morning cold, famished, and tired from barely being able to sleep. She was alone, and didn't know what to do. She knew only that she couldn't go back to where she had come from.
Just when she was about to give up hope, however, a strange cat found her. He was clearly not pedigreed, and was obviously wild. He was a tabby, not a ticked tabby like herself, but a regular tabby.
"Who are you?" he asked. "And what are you doing on my territory?"
"I-I-I'm Light," she stammered. "And wh-wh-what's a territory?"
He spotted her silver collar and understood. "You're a kittypet," he stated.
"A what?" she mewed.
"A kittypet. A twoleg pet."
"I was," she retorted. "I ran away. I hated that life." She then explained about her neglect.
"So you came to the wild, and clearly don't know how to take care of yourself," he remarked.
She nodded shyly. "Well, you may as well come with me. My mate and I have to kits already, but we'll be happy to look after you and teach you how to fend for yourself. You're lucky I found you, and not some other rogue. Otherwise, you could have ended up dead. I'm Storm, by the way," the gray tabby tom told her.
"Thank you," she mewed graciously as he led her to his family's den.
A pretty white she-cat was inside with two kittens – kits, the tom had called them – that looked to be about the same age as her.
"Well, what have you found, Storm?" the white she-cat asked him.
"A runaway kittypet with a tragic past who has come to the wild. I offered to take her in, Tasha," Storm told his mate before telling her what Light had told him. Tasha nodded sadly at the story.
"Of course she can stay," Tasha meowed. "Come, Light, meet Willow and Snow."
Willow, the tortoiseshell she-cat, bounded over to meet her excitedly. Snow, a fluffy white tom, simply nodded, acknowledging at her.
They might not have pedigrees, but they were kind, and looked nice in their own way. Light decided that she liked them. And, over the months, she would come to acknowledge them as her family. It was a new beginning for her.
